'Our Women, Our Fight'

Much later in the night on Saturday, Wesley KillEagle, Jr., would host Mixed Martial Arts fights to benefit the Ronald McDonald House in Seattle, Wash., but earlier in the day, he held another fundraiser which he said was just at the "Our Women, Our Fight" seminar in Dodson.

"This day is about learning to defend yourself, but to also gain some knowledge about what sex trafficking is and what to look out for," he said.

One of Wesley's daughters is 2-year-old Payton who battled liver cancer last year and was housed in Seattle Ronald McDonald House during her chemotherapy. Payton fought cancer and won, and he said it is time to teach all women, including his daughters, to defend themselves against sexual predators.

"Things are getting scary and I don't like it," Wesley said. "I've got daughters and I have nieces that I need to defend, and I can't do it by myself, so it is 'our women and our fight' and it is time to send a message to these sex traffickers that we aren't going to take it anymore."

The seminar started at 9 a.m. with about 20 women in attendance and ran until nearly 3 p.m. The day featured an opening prayer, talking circles, U.S. Border Patrol Ted Reiter who talked about human trafficking and what females should be on the lookout for with the possibility of workers coming into the area from out of state for the proposed Keystone Pipeline project and also teaching the women's self-defense seminar at the tail-end of the day.

Prior to the seminar beginning, Deserae KillEagle, Wesley's sister and the mother of two daughters, said it was important for her and her girls to attend the seminar because she knows she won't always be around to protect her children.

"I want them to be more informed and to learn how to fight people off if they ever had to encounter such a tragedy," she said. "It really scares me to think about, but it is a reality."

Deserae said she was excited for her daughters to get some self-defense training, learn from the day's speakers about sex trafficking and said she was looking forward to Britney Higgs from the 'Her Campaign', a movement started by Higgs and her husband Sammy in Billings, Montana.

"The 'Her Campaign' is a non-profit organization and our mission is to bring restoration to women of sexual exploitation," Higgs said. "We have one safe house in Billings which provides refuge for up to four women at a time."

For more information on the Her Campaign, visit Britney and Sammy at hercampaign.org and on Facebook at facebook.com/hercampaig.

Jazlyn Flansburg, one of Deserae's daughters, who will be in the fifth grade at Dodson next year, spoke to the PCN after the seminar and said the self-defense training went very well. She said she got to put on boxing gloves for the first time and said they were a little bigger than her fists.

"Then I hit the instructor, but not very hard," Jazlyn said. "He taught me how to fight against someone who is trying to harm me. If someone tries to grab your throat, you put your hands up and twist away. We practiced for about half an hour and it was good. The most important thing I learned is to watch my surroundings and stay away from strangers."

All the proceeds from the seminar will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Seattle, Wash., and for more information about sex trafficking, or to phone in a tip on a possible abductee, call 1-800-THE-LOST or visit humantraffickinghotline.org.